Wilhelm Solisch
Wilhelm ("Willi") Solisch (born May 6, 1910 in Stettin ; † December 7, 1988 ) was a German politician ( SED ). From 1956 to 1960 he was Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Rostock .
Life
Solisch, the son of a worker, learned to be a waiter after attending elementary school and went to sea for several years. During the Second World War he did military service in the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner by the Soviets .
After returning to Germany in the Soviet zone of occupation , he became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and a political employee of the SED state leadership in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Later he acted as 2nd or 1st secretary of the SED district leadership in Wismar. From January 1956 to July 1960 he held the office of Lord Mayor of Rostock (successor to the late Bruno Schmidt). Rostock's overseas port was created during his tenure . On September 8, 1959, he signed a friendship treaty between Rostock and the Finnish city of Turku in Rostock . From autumn 1960 he was secretary of the Rostock District Chamber of Crafts (successor to Karl Massel). Until he left the work process, he worked as a manager in the field of maritime transport and port management. Solisch died at the age of 78.
Awards
- 1960 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
literature
- Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ biography . Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 331.
- Günther Buch: names and dates. Biographies of important people in the GDR. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1973, ISBN 3-8012-0020-5 , p. 251.
- Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 2: Maassen - Zylla. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11177-0 , p. 869 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Andreas Herbst : Solisch, Willi . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Treaty Rostock - Turku . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 10, 1959, p. 2.
- ^ Obituary by the district leadership of the SED Rostock . In: Ostsee-Zeitung , December 8, 1988, p. 2.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solisch, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Solisch, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SED) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1988 |